{"id":2630,"date":"2013-06-13T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2630"},"modified":"2013-10-31T22:49:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T21:49:43","slug":"gull-chicks-and-fox-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/gull-chicks-and-fox-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gull Chicks and Fox Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s been a few days (I think) since I&#39;ve posted about the herring gull chicks that are happily beginning life on the roofs of the buildings at work. They&#39;re cute little things and deserve a little space among all the fox photos. <\/p>\n<p>This is one of three chicks on the roof of a low building near the  car park.  <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gull_chick_1306134090.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The second chick was playing in a drainage channel.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gull_chick_1306134094.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The third is safe and well, but is now on a lower section of roof.<\/p>\n<p>The second clutch are enjoying office life.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gull_chick_1306134214.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The parents are keeping a watchful eye out for roving magpies (which are rearing chicks of their own).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gull_chick_1306134168.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Back home, the cubs still dominate the garden. This is Bully Boy, the largest of the group and a complete terror who pushes the others about relentlessly.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/fox_cub_bullyboy_1306134239.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s &#39;Pretty&#39;, the gentlest (but also the most adventurous) on the cubs.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/fox_cub_pretty_1306134243.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And to close, Pretty and Bully Boy enjoying a quick fox trot!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/fox_cub_trot_1306134250.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all chicks taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Fox cubs photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,4,989],"tags":[1177,1142,1128,68],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-chick","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-gull","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}